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Five Habits of Successful Affiliates

Keep It Simple

Success with your team comes from their ability to duplicate your success. So how do you make it easy for them to do this? Keep it simple. Create a simple plan or approach to building your team, and when it’s successful, share it with your team so they can do they same.

Don’t Sell

It’s called affiliate marketing for a reason—it’s different from selling. You’re marketing an opportunity with a product, not selling a product alone. Work in a way that potential team members don’t feel like they are getting a sales pitch, but instead a chance for them to build Income for Life.

Branch Out

Stay away from family and friends when it comes to building your team unless someone has already shown interest. When only approaching friends and family with your affiliate team, you may get a lot of “no’s” and get discouraged. Instead, successful affiliates branch out and use many ways to connect with new team members like social media, networking sites, and even networking and business events in your hometown.

Don’t Give Up

Often times when we ask some of our top affiliates for advice, this is what they say. It’s important not to throw in the towel your first bad week. Many affiliates would not be successful today if they had quit when they first had the chance. Persevere when things slow down and get creative to move past a slump.

Keep Your Eyes on the Prize and Stay Positive

Remember you’re doing this for you. So keep your eyes on your goals with affiliate marketing, be they big or small and keep that positive outlook that got you started in the first place!

Interested in Affiliate Marketing?

Why did you consider affiliate marketing? To make money, right? Well there’s a lot more to it than that. Affiliate programs and affiliate marketing can help to give you freedom, extra income and a way to take ownership of your future. We break down three reasons affiliate marketing might be right for you.

Freedom

Affiliate programs, especially those available online like GDI give you freedom that you just can’t get from your 9-5 job. Affiliate programs allow you to work and network at times that work for you. Whether you have a few extra hours a week or are looking to put full time effort into an affiliate program, you can find one that works for you. There also no set time frame that you must work on building your team. So even if you’re a night owl or a morning person, you will be able to connect with other affiliates like you and work on your own schedule.

Security

If you’re saving for your future or just a rainy day, working to make extra money with an affiliate program can ideally help to provide some financial security. While there are no guarantees to how much money you will make with a program, hard work with the right affiliate opportunity offering can pay off. Building income with an affiliate program outside of your full time job can help to provide security and savings for the future.

Ownership

While affiliate programs are part of a larger company, they allow you a unique opportunity at ownership of something. You decide how much money you make and how much to work with an affiliate program, essentially giving you ownership. Affiliate programs let you make the marketing decisions, hours and set the goals each day, week, month and year. Where else will you find freedom, security and ownership without a big investment?

To learn how to know which affiliate program is right for you, check out this post.

Did we miss a reason to try affiliate marketing? Leave it in the comments below!

The Power of People in Affiliate Marketing

People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.Mary Kay Ash

We shared a few of our favorite motivational quotes last Monday, but the one above really applies to affiliate programs and GDI. In short, what you’re marketing doesn’t matter; it’s the people you build your team with who really matter. At GDI we strive to offer the best products to our affiliates to build their online presence, but when it comes to the affiliate program GDI offers, it’s all about people first, then the product. A strong team can outweigh a weak product understanding any day. So take this quote to heart and understand those people you add to your team are your biggest asset. Do the extra work to build your team with the right people and it will pay off for you in the long run. A powerful affiliate program is built with great people, so add some great people, not just any people, to your team today.